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  1. Das General-Gouvernement

    One issue of "Das Generalgouvernement," 3. Jahrgang, 1943, Heft 2.

  2. Postwar: Verdoner family at the beach

    "Zandvoort 1946. Joke ping pong. Kinderen bad, strand" EXT, Yoka Verdoner playing table tennis. Francisca Verdoner walking among cabanas at the beach in Zandvoort, near Haarlem, the Verdoner family's summer vacation spot. This footage was shot post war. The Verdoner children were hidden children. Their mother Hilde was deported to Auschwitz where she perished. CU of the children at the beach. Yoka and Otto are present as are other children, young adults and adults. They play together in the sand. VS of the children tumbling and doing head stands on the beach. "Zomer 1946. Padedestoelen" MCU...

  3. Aleksander Herszkowicz collection

    Consists of three handwritten songs written and performed by Jankel Herszkowicz in the Łódź ghetto; ten group photographic portraits of Jankel Herszkowicz with his family and friends in Łódź, Poland, circa 1960; three photographs of Jankel Herszkowicz with Josef Wajsblat and friends at the Łódź Jewish cemetery, circa 1960; an ID photograph of Majer Herszkowicz, Jankel’s brother; a photographic portrait of Cudyk Herszkowicz, Jankel’s brother; c. 1930, in Opatow, Poland; a military ID; issued to Jankiel Herszkowicz in 1949 in Łódź, Poland; and two audio cassettes consisting of recording...

  4. Ruth Szmarag papers

    The Ruth Szmarag papers include poems, plays, a diary, and photographs relating to Ruth Szmarag’s pre-war and wartime experiences in Vienna and in hiding in Belgium. The poems, plays, and diary were written by Ruth during her time in hiding. The collection also includes pre-war photographs of Ruth and her family in Vienna as well as wartime photographs of Ruth and her mother, Flora, while in hiding and immediately after liberation in Belgium.

  5. Casimier Claude Hampel collection

    The collection documents the Holocaust-era experiences of the Wasserman and Hampel families in Warsaw and Łódź, Poland, including Genia Wasserman, her parents Emilia and Marian Wasserman, Genia’s sister Lea Wasserman, and her son Claude Hampel. Pre-war photographs include depictions of Emilia and Marian Wasserman, and Genia’s brother. Wartime photographs consist of depictions of the Wasserman family in the Warsaw ghetto and Lea Wasserman and her fiancé. Post-war photographs include depictions of Genia and her son Claude in Łódź.

  6. Dorothy Thompson speaks out after being expelled from Germany

    Fox Movietone News Story 23-139. Filmed on August 28, 1934. Journalist Dorothy Thompson, wife of novelist and playwright Sinclair Lewis, speaking on being expelled from Germany because of newspaper articles written in 1932 against Hitler and the Nazi Party. Thompson speaks on her expulsion, censorship by German government, and German treatment of foreign correspondents.

  7. Kan family in US postwar: high school graduation

    Betsy and her boyfriend walking, both with cigarettes. Betsy, her boyfriend, Jeanne, and an older women (young man's mother?) in front of a large building on the day of Betsy's graduation. Jeanne and the other woman with Frits and another man (young man's father?). Women in caps and gowns holding diplomas and flowers exiting a building. People lining the staircase watch the procession. Betsy in cap and gown during the procession and afterwards with her classmates. 01:01:25 Jeanne, Betsy, and her fiancé pose for the camera. 01:01:33 Airplane on runway, people disembark from the plane. 01:01:...

  8. Peter Flusser collection

    Consists of an album containing 49 attached photographss and three additional photographs from Shanghai, China.

  9. Nazi propaganda poster

    The antisemitic poster was issued by the Nazi party in preparation for an election

  10. Ruth Berkowicz Segal collection

    Consists of one permit to stay in Japan issued to "Rys Berkowicz" (donor), one postcard, sent to the donor in Vilnius from Warsaw, with Nazi censorship stamp; two postcards sent to the donor in Kobe from family and friend; and four envelopes with Nazi censorship stamps sent to the donor in Vilnius from friends in Warsaw who perished in the Holocaust.

  11. Rachel Abadi Schlanger collection

    Consists of a black and white photographic portrait of the donor's father, wearing a suit and tie; and two black and white photographs of the donor's father, one of a group of men posing outdoors, in Le Vernet internment camp.

  12. Verdoner family celebrates Easter

    Notes from original film indicate that the Verdoner family is celebrating Easter, April 1939. EXT, MLS, Gerrit and Francisca Verdoner in their garden. VS, MCUs Francisca playing in the yard with a toy baby doll and baby carriage. Her older sister Yoka is also playing in the garden with her. They are searching for Easter eggs among the trees and bushes in their yard. Their grandfather is in the garden playing with them. MCU, grandfather, grandmother and another female relative, pose for the camera, they are playing with eggs in their hands that they are passing to each other. Gerrit Verdoner...

  13. "I Remained Living"

    Consists of one memoir, 162 pages, entitled "I Remained Living" by Usher (Asher) Celinski, originally of Skarzysko-Kamienna, Poland, in 1964. Includes information about his experiences in Skarzysko-Kamienna, Buchenwald, and Sliebin and the deaths of his family in Treblinka.

  14. Palace of Justice guards

    (Munich 137) Palace of Justice Guards, Nuremberg, Germany, April 15, 1946. CU, sign: "Command Post - Enclave Nurnberg-Furth." Russian, English, and American military personnel and civilians being checked as they enter and leave through the gate. Sign: "No Cameras Allowed" to left of command post. CU, sign above sentry box, "3rd Battalion, 26th Inf." SEQ: US guards drilling in courtyard. Cut-ins, soldiers and civilians watching the drill. SEQ: Formal British guard mount in palace courtyard. CU, British guard captain barking orders.

  15. Jewish family visits Paris

    Paris. People look at books or journals and artwork being sold by vendors along the street. Camera pans left on buildings lining the Seine River. Cars drive across the bridge. Camera tilts down onthe Fontaine du Palmier with a statute of victory standing at the top of the column. Paris streets with cars. A cat sits on a stone wall along the Seine. A French flag flies behind. Camera pans left on a Paris street. View from a bridge on the Seine. Four military men in long black coats and white feather hats walk through the street. Notre Dame with scaffolding along its front. A street sign reads...

  16. Papers of General Nikola Mikhov (Fond 427)

    Contains the diary of General Nikola Mikhov and other documents relating to the disposition of Bulgarian troops in Yugoslavia, air bombardment of Sofia, Bulgaria, and passage of German troops through Bulgaria.

  17. State Commission to investigate crimes committed by the occupiers and their collaborators (AJ 110)

    Contains correspondence and other records concerning facts and evidence on war crimes committed by German, Italian, Croatian, and Bulgarian occupiers; individual cases, indictments, and trials; and the search for missing individuals sought in connection with war crimes.

  18. Demonstration in London

    "Moslem Demonstration" Moslem demonstration in London. Two men carry banner, "Down With H.G. Wells Short History of the World."

  19. Kan family vacationing during winter in Switzerland

    Color. Scenic shots of Arosa, Switzerland and mountains. Ice skating in FG. Ice rink. Betsy sits on some steps outside of a building and waves. Ice rink. Pan up to the snow covered mountainside. Betsy gets a skating lesson and Jeanne also skates. Betsy and Robert stand next to a building, balloons hang from the side of the building's railing. From overhead, a long line of horse drawn sleighs with balloons. Jeanne sits in a sleigh, waves, balloons hang from the sleigh behind her. More shots of the sleighs and horses. 01:06:37 MS, Betsy holds a blue balloon with "Tschuggen Club Arosa" in whit...

  20. Leon Rennert collection

    Rectangular form with printed and handwritten text on recto: Report card issued to "Leon Renaat" [donor] by the Jongensschool van Zelem for the second term of the 1941 school year.